Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

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Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq is a historical nonfiction book that examines a series of U.S.-backed coups and interventions abroad over more than a century and their long-term global consequences.

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Label	Occurrences
Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq canonical	2

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ history book ⓘ nonfiction book ⓘ
author	Stephen Kinzer ⓘ
centralTheme	corporate and strategic interests in foreign policy ⓘ democracy promotion as justification for intervention ⓘ long-term consequences of U.S.-backed coups ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endsWithEvent	2003 invasion of Iraq ⓘ
focusesOnCountry	Afghanistan ⓘ Chile ⓘ Cuba ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ Hawaii ⓘ Iran ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Nicaragua ⓘ Panama ⓘ Philippines ⓘ
genre	historical nonfiction ⓘ political history ⓘ
hasSequelOrRelatedWork	All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror ⓘ surface form: All the Shah’s Men The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War ⓘ
intendedAudience	general readers ⓘ students of history and international relations ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
mediaType	print ⓘ
notableCaseStudy	1953 Iranian coup d'état ⓘ surface form: 1953 Iranian coup d’état 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état ⓘ 1973 Chilean coup d’état ⓘ Operation Just Cause ⓘ surface form: 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq ⓘ
notableTopic	economic motives behind regime change ⓘ role of the CIA in foreign coups ⓘ
originalTitle	Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq self-link ⓘ
pageCountApproximate	400 ⓘ
perspective	critical of U.S. interventionism ⓘ
publicationYear	2006 ⓘ
publisher	Times Books ⓘ
startsWithEvent	overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy ⓘ
structure	chronological case studies ⓘ
subject	United States foreign policy ⓘ coups d’état ⓘ imperialism ⓘ interventionism ⓘ regime change ⓘ
timeSpanCovered	1893–2003 ⓘ

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Stephen Kinzer → notableWork → Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq ⓘ

Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq → originalTitle → Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq self-link ⓘ